Media contributions
1Media contributions
Title Curiosity of Computer Game that offers date with Dickens Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet The Times Media type Print Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 13/02/2023 Description Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Dickens Letters Project, held a hackathon event in London for coders and digital humanists, with the aim of using his database of Dickens’s correspondence as the basis for a game, to enhance research impact and engagement. The participants developed a prototype, the aim of which was for the player to obtain an invitation to dinner with Dickens. Leon hopes to use this fledgling idea to create a fully-developed visual interface, through which the general public would interact with a virtual Dickens, so as draw them into a closer relationship with the author and his world. URL https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pick-your-wicks-to-wrangle-dinner-invite-with-charles-dickens-in-video-game-nzmlb2mzm Persons Leon Litvack
Keywords
- Dickens
- Letters
- artificial intelligence